Chokehold of ignorance and Karma

Miseries of human life and existence mainly emanate from unfulfillment of material wants as well as want of spiritual knowledge. Fulfilment of life is attained only when we can realize the Self-knowledge, the Consciousness itself. In reality the Supreme Self is the Witness, the God. A person who has realized the Self, which is ever free, eternal, ever blissful, transcends all consciousness of bondage and freedom. Only a person absorbed in nescience strives to free and emancipate himself from all bondage of desires and egoism. When the mind desires to accept or rejects anything this is called bondage. Bondage remains in desire and when this desire is destroyed liberation is said to have attained. The desire for sensual enjoyment causes hindrance to our attainment of knowledge and binds us in attachment to worldly affairs. This is our ignorance. We are to give up worldly prosperity and fruits of performance of good works.A person whose intellect is freed from passion, darkness and light is fit for realization of self-knowledge. He will then realize that he is not the body, but Consciousness.

Thus he attains detachment , knowledge and liberation from the tangles of Karma. In order to acquire the perception of thought and understanding towards the highest form of knowledge, we need to embody an intelligent purposive principle to guide us as the presiding deity. This is God which controls the order of the world of matter. Ignorance is our obdurate stumbling block in our road to enlightenment, awareness, knowledge and the highest wisdom.This ignorance in us induces us to commit, indulge in ever-recurring vices involving greed and lust, impelling desires, envy and jealousy, helpless despair, haughty pride, unmanly fear and burning rage of anger. Ignorance generates egoism, distractions, delusion, crabbed and cabined mentality, adjuncts of attachment, aversion to spirital pursuits and unruly desire to cling to the abject lures of materialism. The spiritual practices, yogic exercises are the necessary conditions for attaining spiritual freedom, enlightenment and salvation from the consequences of the attachments generated out of Kama. Then the involution of serenity, love, truth, generosity, righteousness, wisdom and infinite knowledge will prevail in our life and existence. And the majectic doors of the kingdom of heaven and its tranquil grandeur will be opened to us.Yes when our days are numbered and we gradually inch towards the end, we all wish to mount the steps of the highest heaven, the abode of God. Though in reality this is the spiritual world which lies in our imagination and realized feeling, we fondly yearn for achieving, reaching the invisible heaven. But again for attaining this feat, we should strive to transcend the traits, Gunas of Tamas, Rajas and Sattwa. When we shall succeed in doing so, we shall be able to achieve the freedom and deliverance from all worldly impressions, past impurities, woes, odium, misfortune, frustration, distress, desires, delusion, greed, lust, anger, jealousy and miseries. No disturbances and inconsistencies will then stand in our way to concern us and we shall be a free man with free will. So we cannot belittle the significance and role of Karma in our real life. This is the rudder which will guide the course of our journey in life. If our life is riddled and fraught with undesirable activities and deeds, we shall have face miseries for the misdeeds. In fact our Karma configures the zodiac of our destiny in life and existence. Behind of and/or with Karma lies the success or failure in life. We are to leap-frog the barricades and barriers of all worldly desires, reach beyond and ascend the golden steps of the spiritual heaven which we all covet to have in our depths within. This is our bounden duty to offer the fruits of all of our actions at the altar of God as a token of our oblation and homage to Him in return of ambrosia, divine grace and mercy for freedom and wisdom in life and existence.